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Brian, "This is earth calling Brian, come in." What planet of the universe are you on? The last time I checked neither straight women nor straight men like to marry gays and lesbians for partners. It's been tried and failed. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GENDER SEGREGATION in gay marriage. Gays and straights are different, got it?

No, a gay man is more like a straight man than like a lesbian woman and a straight man is more like a gay man than a straight woman. People marry for many different reasons, not just sexual attraction.

Oscar Wilde and Meredith Baxter are two examples of gays marrying under the same laws as everyone else.

The issue is rewriting marriage laws for everyone, not freedom. Every gay is free to marry under the same laws as everyone else, or have a religious same sex marriage ceremony without fear of prosecution polygamists face. Every gay is free to cohabit with consenting adults, the question is what happens when government approves sex segregating marriage where we now have perfect affirmative action, integration and diversity.

The issue is rewriting marriage laws for everyone, not freedom. Every gay is free to marry under the same laws as everyone else, or have a religious same sex marriage ceremony without fear of prosecution polygamists face. Every gay is free to cohabit with consenting adults, the question is what happens when government approves sex segregating marriage where we now have perfect affirmative action, integration and diversity.

The 14th Amendment explicitly acknowledges male/female inequality in Section Two. There is no gender equality right in the US Constitution; the Equal Rights Amendment was never ratified.

Marriage was created to make an appropriate situation for male/female sexual union and a home for the children produced by that union. Every child raised by a same sex couple is raised either motherless or fatherless.

Brian: UR wrong."Ten years after the Lawrence v. Texas decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 26, 2013 that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional "as a deprivation of the equal liberty of the person ... protected by the Fifth Amendment". United States v. Windsor, the title of the landmark case, was decided by a 5 to 4 vote. The federal government is required to recognize marriages performed in states where same-sex marriage has been legalized, and provide federal rights, privileges and benefits."

No, lesbian, gay, and bisexual orientations are not disorders. Research has found no inherent association between any of these sexual orientations and psychopathology. Both heterosexual behavior and homosexual behavior are normal aspects of human sexuality. Both have been documented in many different cultures and historical eras. Despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual relationships are normal forms of human bonding. Therefore, these mainstream organizations long ago abandoned classifications of homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Here are a few societies and publications to back my information :&#8232;&#8232;The American Medical Association, American Counseling Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Canadian Psychiatric Association, World Health Organization, Chinese Society of Psychiatry, American Psychoanalytic Association, Royal College of Psychiatrists, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, American Academy of Physician Assistants, National Association of School Psychologists. and American Academy of Pediatrics&#8232;

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